A dangerous kiss

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Movie
German title A dangerous kiss
Original title Dot the I
Country of production USA , UK , Spain
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Matthew Parkhill
script Matthew Parkhill
production George Duffield
Meg Thomson
music Javier Navarrete
camera Affonso Beato
cut Jon Harris
occupation

A dangerous kiss (original title: Dot the I ) is a psychological thriller from 2003. Directed by Matthew Parkhill, who also wrote the screenplay.

action

Carmen, a young Spaniard, has just got engaged to the rich Englishman Barnaby and is celebrating her bachelorette party with her friends in a restaurant. The waiter introduces her to an old custom that is said to bring good luck. Accordingly, the bride gives a kiss to a stranger of her choice. Carmen agrees and chooses Kit, an attractive Brazilian. The kiss of the two takes much longer than appropriate, which confuses Carmen and causes Kit to stalk Carmen.

Carmen meets again and again with the likeable, unemployed actor Kit, to whom she feels very attracted. However, she keeps pulling back as she is unwilling to risk her upcoming wedding. Kit films his meeting with Carmen (with her consent), whereby it is obvious to the viewer that Carmen is also being secretly filmed by an unknown third person.

For a long time it remains unclear whether Carmen Barnaby will actually marry or rather get together with poor Kit, with whom she has more connections. On the day of the wedding, the amorous Kit tries to thwart the ceremony, but he arrives too late at the registry office.

In the evening, the two newlyweds quarrel, and Carmen seeks comfort in Kit's arms. Barnaby turns on the TV and watches the two of them making love in Kit's apartment, although it is initially unclear whether Kit knows about the cameras installed in his apartment.

The next unusual turn comes when Carmen returns to her husband after the misstep, but who throws her out and then commits suicide in front of the camera. When Carmen returns home, the ambulance and the police have already arrived, and the scene is being filmed here too.

Carmen then flees to Kit, devastated. There, her apparently deceased husband finally appears, who comes out as an unscrupulous director who has been showing Carmen his affection and wedding the whole time in order to turn it into a film with the help of two friends. Kit was hired by him as an actor, he was supposed to bewitch a woman in order to relax her fiancé. Little did Kit know that Barnaby was the fiancé. He also knew nothing about the hidden cameras in his apartment. Barnaby takes the cameras and leaves them both puzzled.

Months later they all meet again for a celebration at which Barnaby is to receive an award for his very successful film. Carmen has apparently reconciled with Barnaby and the two appear as a couple. When Barnaby is about to take the stage, Kit fires several shots at him. Barnaby is taken to hospital seriously injured. During a police questioning, Kit reveals that he only shot from a starting pistol with blank cartridges to get more publicity for the film, and this at the behest of Barnaby's two friends. They deny that they knew about it, but the gun Kit used to fire is actually a starting pistol, the gun that killed Barnaby was found under a table and is covered in fingerprints from Barnaby's friend.

In the end it becomes clear that Carmen shot Barnaby with the help of Kit and put the real gun in the pocket of one of his friends. The two lovers drive off unmolested in the taxi.

Reviews

The US film portal Rotten Tomatoes has so far only counted 25% positive reviews. The many twists and turns in the film are not plausible for the viewer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A dangerous kiss at rotten tomatoes (English)